I am concerned not only that the Government will sell Ireland’s national carrier, Aer Lingus, but that we won’t have an airport in Cork. 

The article by Dr Seán Ó’Conaill of UCC Faculty of Law (Equality terminology maybe troublesome for government, Irish Examiner, February 13) was timely and interesting. 

Sex workers can speak for themselves and don’t need to be rescued by an unholy alliance of fundamentalists and radical feminists who wish to criminalise their clients in order to “send a message”.

Paddy Burns’s letter (Irish Examiner, February 13), ‘Bishops should open churches to homeless’, suggests that homelessness would be solved if people bedded-down on church floors, gawking up at rich frescoes of St Raphael, marble columns, and ornate ceilings, amid the gold leaf and marble of the country’s stunning and sacred churches, while leaving behind empty beer cans and drug paraphernalia.

Seán O’Riordan’s articles on providing a national air defence system are timely.

Re the article “Ministers to be quizzed on UK ‘airspace deal’” (Irish Examiner, February 13),

A judge has sentenced a Cork woman, who “ripped off almost €60,000 in false social welfare claims” to 18 months in jail with half suspended because of what he described as “the particular circumstances of the case and also the deterrent effect”.

I naively thought that Ministers Rabbitte and White had the best interest of all citizens, businesses and tourists at heart when deciding on the format for the much delayed Eircode.

The spectacle of members of An Garda Síochána being described by Deputy Ruth Coppinger on the floor of Dáil Éireann as ‘dogs’ was intolerable, demeaning and cowardly. 

After reading about the Fair Deal funding problems, the difficulties in getting the Children’s Hospital started and the Aer Lingus for sale problems, I’ve come to the conclusion that, we are not where we are at… we are where we were.